I was divorced because I got pregnant during the lean years, so I went back to my parents’ home and

Liang Yuyao was in the room holding a letter, crying.

Sister Ji Rulan held the hands of her two younger brothers and looked at her mother at a loss.

The two little boys, who were usually naughty, looked at their mother blankly.

They have never seen their mother cry. She always says that life is so good now and there is no need to be sad.

"Mom, what's wrong with you? Let me go call Dad back!"

Ten-year-old Ji Rulan asked carefully.

Liang Yu shook her head, wiped her tears, and brought the child to the yard.

She said to the south: "Your grandpa is gone, come and kowtow to him and say goodbye!"

The three children had never seen their grandfather, nor had they even heard of him. But seeing their mother's sad expression, they did not ask any questions. They knelt down and kowtowed with their mother.

"Mom, where is grandpa?"

Ji Rulan asked.

"I'm gone, and I'll never see you again." Liang Yuyao's tears began to flow again.

Shi Tou walked in and saw four people with sad faces. He asked hurriedly what was going on.

The three-year-old son said in a baby voice: "Dad, Mom said that we will never see grandpa again."

Shitou was stunned and asked Rulan to take her brothers to play.

He was busy in the shop just now when he heard Song Laohei say that there was a letter from his wife from the south.

Shi Tou asked the people in the shop to deliver it to her.

In the past, all business letters from the south were addressed to Zhengguo Shop, but this time, Liang Yuyao's name was directly written.

He felt a little strange, and after finishing his work, he hurried back.

"Come in!" He took Yu Yao's hand and walked into the bedroom.

"Was the letter sent by the Liang family?" Shi Tou asked softly.

"Yes, my father is gone!" Liang Yu cried inconsolably.

Shitou held her in his arms, stroked her back, and said nothing.

Although he was a rough man, no one understood this woman better than him.

She comes from a scholarly family. Although she looks weak, she is actually tough and decisive inside. She has been the one making decisions on all matters at home and in the shop over the years.

The women and daughters-in-law in the shop all praised her for being smart and capable, and said nothing was difficult for her.

But only Shitou knew that she often had nightmares in the middle of the night.

Sometimes I wake up screaming and crying.

After waking up, Liang Yuyao would cry and tell Shitou that she had dreamed of her stepmother abusing her and her father being cold and distant to her.

I dreamed that my younger brother met with an unexpected accident.

Every time she would cry for a long time before she could calm down.

"Yao'er, if you want to see your father off, I will accompany you to the south to say goodbye to him."

Stone said softly.

At the beginning, Liang Yuyao's stepmother, Mrs. Lu, decided to marry her to a high-ranking official in the capital as a concubine, under the pretext of paving the way for Lord Liang's career.

On the way to the capital, the horses were frightened and the carriage made by Liang Yuyao fell into the river.

Shitou and his fellow villagers came to Anzhou from Jijia Bay and met them by chance.

Shitou jumped into the icy river regardless of others' attempts to stop him and pulled Liang Yu out.

Liang Yuyao followed Shitou to Ji's house.

When Lord Liang found out, he was furious. How could the daughter of a prefect hang out with peasants?

Liang Yuyao cut off one of his legs to repay Lord Liang for his upbringing and severed his relationship with him.

With the careful care of the Ji family, her legs recovered and she was not left with any disability.

Not long after her leg healed, she married Shi Tou.

Shitou's love, her mother-in-law's care, and Ji Xiaobei's care made her truly integrated into the Ji family.

She hated her father for being cold-hearted and squandering her mother's dowry. Not long after her mother died, he remarried and treated her and her brother coldly.

She hated her father even more for watching her stepmother send her into the fire pit.

But now she couldn't hate him at all.

That living person is now a cold corpse.

She didn't hate him anymore, but she was sad.

I feel sad for my mother and for myself.

She will not go back, she has nothing to do with the Liang family anymore.

She didn't want to have anything to do with the Liang family anymore.

She raised her tearful eyes and said, "No, I won't go. I have severed my relationship with the Liang family."

Shitou wiped her tears and said, "I'll do whatever you say!"

Liang Yuyao often stares into a daze, and no one knows what he is thinking about.

Shitou understood her thoughts, the pain in her heart that she could not forgive, was tormented, and unable to let go.

He bought incense and an incense burner, and secretly asked someone to carve a tablet, which he quietly placed in the side room.

If Yu Yao could light a stick of incense and kowtow to her father, perhaps she would be able to let it go slowly.

A few days later, Liang Yuyao really put up his father's tablet in the side room.

Time is the best medicine, and there is also Shi Tou, a man who understands both cold and heat.

Liang Yuyao regained his former vitality.

As spring passed and autumn came, Ji Rulan was thirteen years old and it was time for her to get married.

The eldest daughter of the Ji family grew up to be a graceful young lady. She had learned to read and write with Liang Yuyao since she was a child. She did not look like a girl from a poor family.

Ji Xiaobei loved this niece the most and often brought her to Beijing to play.

She also invited the daughters of nobles to play with her. Rulan was neither humble nor timid, but rather graceful and elegant.

A lady asked Ji Xiaobei about her age, hoping to find a matchmaker for her.

Ji Xiaobei smiled and thanked him, then said, "We have only one daughter in the Ji family. We need to ask her mother for her opinion on this matter."

Liang Yuyao said that she didn't want Rulan to marry into a wealthy and prominent family.

She had seen enough of the open and secret struggles in the backyards of wealthy families. Rulan was straightforward and most likely to offend people, so she didn't want to send her daughter into the fire pit.

But the girl is old and can't stay at home all the time.

She just wanted to find a down-to-earth family, as long as the young man was loyal to Rulan.

The Bai family in Xuanhua Prefecture is Liang Yuyao’s grandfather’s family.

Twenty years ago, the Bai family was very prominent, with their business expanding from Xuanhua Prefecture to the capital.

In the entire Xuanhua Prefecture, everyone knows the Bai family.

Later, the Bai family's business went from bad to worse. When Liang Yuyao got married, Bai's uncle gave her 100 taels of silver, which was borrowed without telling the family.

Liang Yuyao was very grateful to her uncle.

The year her grandmother passed away, she was pregnant and was unable to see her off, which left her with regret.

A few years ago, Shitou met Bai's uncle in Beijing, who opened a small shop doing grocery business.

Shitou came back and told Liang Yuyao about it.

Liang Yuyao thought for a long time and told Shitou that he wanted to put a piece of cloth in his uncle's shop to sell on his behalf.

Shi Tou agreed immediately.

Ji Xiaobei left all the matters in the shop to Shitou and Liang Yuyao and she didn't worry about them at all.

But Liang Yuyao still told Ji Xiaobei about this.

After all, the fabrics at home were very expensive and had never been sold in a small shop.

Ji Xiaobei said, "Yuyao, Uncle Bai is a good man and has helped you a lot in the past. I have a shop in Beijing, which is in a remote location. I'm renting it out at a 20% discount. The rent can be paid at the end of the year. If Uncle Bai wants to expand his business, he can use my shop. You can decide how to talk to Uncle Bai!"

Liang Yuyao looked at Ji Xiaobei gratefully.

"Sister, I thank you on behalf of my uncle!"

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